Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is man who lives for the past a past that the world finds abhorrent. During his first term as Prime Minister his policies were focused on reviving a Japan of the past through revisions to the constitution which restricts Japan's rights to a military and doesn't allow for the export of arms. Abe's vision is the complete reversal of these constraints allowing as he sees it a return of Japan to a great nation.
His laser focus on these dreams led to his resignation after a single year in office and several years in the political wilderness until his return to power in a landslide election for him and the Liberal Democratic party. Having learned his lesson, upon returning to the center of Japanese power he concentrated on reviving Japan's morey bound economy. Now little more than a year into his second term Abe has once again turned towards that what which holds most dear breathing new life into a past most of Asia would rather not live through again a militarized Japan.
Abe is determined to achieve these goals and the first step is the removable the ban on exporting arms and armaments to the world believing that this will allow to Japan to reach his other goal a true military and not an aberration called the Self Defense Force. Giving Japan once again the right to a collective self defense without restrictions.
Japan has drafted new guidelines that would reverse a decades-old ban on weapons exports, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Sunday, a move that could further strain ties with neighbors China and South Korea.
Tokyo has been reviewing the self-imposed export ban under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s new security strategy, aimed at bolstering the self-reliance of the military.
The draft principles omit the ban of exports to governments that are involved in international conflicts, a move that Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun said on Sunday was aimed at paving the way for more sales to countries like Israel, which last year bought Lockheed Martin’s F-35 jets with Japan-made components.
“It’s not necessarily aimed at boosting exports so much as clarifying the types of cases in which exports were previously allowed under exceptional circumstances,” the source said, declining to be identified because the draft is not public.
That these revisions will alarm China and South Korea doesn't matter to Shinzo Abe its all about returning Japan to its past greatness as he sees it.
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